5 basketball players at Duquesne shot last night

[dreunc1542]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14877170/

2 of them are still in the hospital. I called my best friend as soon as I heard about and he said it happened in the middle of campus right outside his dorm hall.

 

[Trey Beamon]

I hadn't heard about this...wow. The Duquesne campus area is pretty safe compared to other sections of the city.

Prayers to everyone involved.

 

[farmerjerome]

Good God. How is this happening?

 

[Cristiano_Ronaldo]

I hadn't heard about this...wow. The Duquesne campus area is pretty safe compared to other sections of the city.

Prayers to everyone involved.

You're kidding right? It's right smack next to downtown and the Hill District. No way have I ever felt comfortable walking near campus at night.

 

[cougargirl]

Cristiano beat me to it. Duquesne U. isn't in the safest part of Pittsburgh - the Bluff and the Hill aren't like the college district of Oakland or tony Shadyside.

 

[dooley_womack1]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

 

[Trey Beamon]

I hadn't heard about this...wow. The Duquesne campus area is pretty safe compared to other sections of the city.

Prayers to everyone involved.

You're kidding right? It's right smack next to downtown and the Hill District. No way have I ever felt comfortable walking near campus at night.

Whoops...bad time to bust out the sarcasm font.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

yeah, two guys in critical condition -- how a guy got his scholarship is a huge part of the story

and, it's not an msnbc story, it's an ap story

 

[dooley_womack1]

Um, like I said, it's on the backburner, but it's something that'll come around someday.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

no, you said the msnbc story (sic) missed one big aspect of the story. it was the initial news story, didn't miss it

 

[dooley_womack1]

No, the story mentioned nothing about what the guy had to do to get out of Siena. He makes it, only to get shot at his new school. The **** if that ain't worth mentioning.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

sure...

 

[Moderator1]

I covered a game at Duquesne once. The losing coach goes outside and his bus isn't waiting. So he talks off walking for his hotel saying, "If I get mugged, it will be the best thing that happened to me all night."

 

[dreunc1542]

Here is a more in-depth look at what happened.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06260/722679-53.stm

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I covered a game at Duquesne once. The losing coach goes outside and his bus isn't waiting. So he talks off walking for his hotel saying, "If I get mugged, it will be the best thing that happened to me all night."

That just SOUNDS like something Scott Edgar would say.

 

[BYH]

The MSN story missed one big aspect of the story. Kojo Mensah, one of the victims, was the guy who hired a lawyer to get out of his scholarship with Siena, which jerked him around for a year. As an aside, I wonder if any reporters in Pittsburgh have done any digging about how the new coach got Mensah or how he all of a sudden got 10 recruits. I know with the shootings, that's on the back burner. But that just leaps out as a head-scratcher.

I think he brought a bunch of current players and recruits with him from Northeastern.

 

[steveu]

Right about now you have to wonder how the 19-year old girl arrested in all of this feels. Jesus. That's a story in itself.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

She's a dumbass. Duquesne has announced today that they suspended her. They should have announced that they expelled her ass. "Gee, here are a bunch of my boyz and they all have guns. I don't see anything that could possibly go wrong here."

 

[jason_whitlock]

you should've read her myspace page before she made it private..... not exactly the kind of girl you want your boy to bring home from college.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I saw her picture. The tattoo gave much away. and how long til we get the article that little or no background check was done on this girl because she was a Hurricane Katrina refugee from Xavier in 2005?